A year on from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, fishermen on Louisiana’s Delacroix Island face an uncertain future, as Melanie Burford reports, with support from ProPublica.
The community was already in decline - hurricanes, erosion, the intrusion of modern life and falling seafood prices had all taken their toll.
Now, many of the remaining fishermen fear they may be the last of their kind, and that a way of life will disappear.
Japan Dead Zone: Video of search for bodies in Fukushima radiation shadow (by RussiaToday)
Japan’s government has ordered the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant to pay some $12,000 to each household forced to evacuate because of radiation leaks. It is estimated the compensation bill could end up topping 25 billion. However, the country’s leadership has come in for its own criticism, from those still living in shelters a month on from the quake. They say helps been too little, too late. It comes as emergency response crews are finally carrying out intensive searches for tsunami victims near the nuclear plant, delayed over radiation fears.
Busby: 400,000 to develop cancer in 200 km radius of Fukushima (by RussiaToday)
Engineers at Japan’s Fukushima plant continue work on emptying highly radioactive water from one of the nuclear reactors. The latest tests show that radiation levels in the sea near the damaged facility have spiked. On Tuesday, Japan raised the level of nuclear alert at the plant to the maximum of seven, putting it on a par with the Chernobyl disaster. Recovery efforts came under threat as series of powerful aftershocks hit the area near the power station. It came a month after the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the country, leaving over 13 thousand people dead. Monitoring stations around the world have been picking up small amounts of radioactive particles spreading from Fukushima.
(via Anonymous to Sony: “Prepare for the biggest attack you have ever witnessed”)
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Military experts are accusing coalition forces in Libya of using depleted uranium in their air strikes. The deadly substance can cause cancer and physical mutations in those who come into close contact with it. The claims are surfacing as the ongoing NATO-led campaign is being stepped up with no clear end in sight. Journalist Conn Hallinan says Washington is selling depleted uranium bombs to its NATO allies, and the ill effects of the controversial weapon will be felt in Libya for decades to come…
Radiation caught on tape: RT talks to Fukushima zone stalker (by RussiaToday)
A powerful aftershock has hit northeastern Japan, exactly a month after March’s devastating earthquake and tsunami killed over 13 thousand people. Meanwhile the government is extending the 20 kilometre evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant over risks of long-term radiation. Well video journalist Tetsuo Jimbo braved the area and went within 1 and a half kilometres of the facility to document the dangerous levels of radiation there.
China’s Black Jail (by bonnetwork)
China’s system of petitioners taking grievances to the central government has an ancient history. In former times those mistreated by the local potentate would appeal directly to the Emperor in the capital. And even today those who feel wronged by local governments come to Beijing in the hope that the central government will listen to them. Starting earlier this year BON’s Tom MacKenzie has spent several months investigating the plight of these petitioners who make that long journey to Beijing - only to find themselves detained, and sometimes beaten and tortured, as they try to seek justice in the Chinese capital.
John Oliver demonstrates how America’s freedom packages will turn any country’s civil war into a catastro-tunity.
Cat and Dolphins playing together
Screwed by Corporate America (by RTAmerica)
General Electric is one of America’s oldest corporations. It fuels the economy with innovation, with jobs and even with wind. But it turns out, not with taxes.
Brazil school shooting — CCTV video (by RTAmerica)
WARNING - Some may find scenes in the video disturbing
This dramatic footage shows children fleeing from a killer who shot 12 kids dead and wounded at least 12 others in Rio de Janeiro school shooting, Brazil. A 24-year old former student of the public school where the tragedy took place, entered the building and opened fire in two classrooms. He shot himself afterwards. The country’s President has declared 7-days of mourning for the victims. The massacre is the first of its kind in Brazil, mirroring school shootings in the U.S.
US leading economic world war (by RTAmerica)
Despite the truce that G20 countries made this weekend agreeing not to devalue currencies to tackle financial imbalances, some fear the US has been long involved in a currency war. The US has waged well-known wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet some say it is also waging a lesser-known battle that is just as costly and much larger in scale.
Hamid Dabashi and Nader Hashemi debate the US/NATO intervention in Libya (via The Libyan Intervention: Humanitarian or an Aggression?)
Mountain Top Removal Produced by Mark Mattheis (by theWCJournalist)
“Mountaintop removal does exactly what it says: A mountaintop is stripped of trees, blown to bits with vast amounts of explosives, then pushed aside by giant equipment—all to expose a layer of coal to be mined.”
This type of mining for coal is practiced on a vast scale vastly practiced in the Appalachian region and has a tremendous impact on the environment and the people.
Tricia Shapiro, author of the book “Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of Us All“, was a guest at Western Carolina University at the beginning of March, talking to students about the effects of coal mining in central Appalachia while showing selections from the recently released documentary Low Coal by Mari-Lynn Evans and Jordan Freeman.
WCU Assistant Professor David Henderson talked with Shapiro on her book prior to the screening of the documentary.
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